Reverence also in other ways is paid to the grove. No one enters it except bound with a chain, as an inferior acknowledging the might of the local divinity. If he chance to fall, it is not lawful for him to be lifted up, or to rise to his feet; he must crawl out along the ground.

Tacitus

Done recording a little interview. May take a while, but it looks interesting and will involve many Pagans I know and am eager to hear.

The costumes of magnates from 16th c. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Early snow in the evening by Yuri Pryadko

Join us for our Year's End Stream where we will go over this past year, have interesting discussions and so much more as we look toward the Solstice!

There’s a lot of similar stories throughout Ukrainian history, but I’ll stop here for now. Hopefully it was an interesting read.

Next big post will be dedicated to a rather obscure, but very peculiar historical figure. Will hopefully be interesting enough.

Remembered two interesting stories from folklore and decided to re-analyze them 10+ years after the first read. Found some interesting stuff. Just need to translate the texts themselves and find good illustrations. Though considering how obscure the tales are there’s probably no drawings or painting of them specifically. Will have to improvise.